Singapore Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Singapore with its capital Singapur is located in Asia (Southeastern Asia, islands between Malaysia and Indonesia). It covers some 694 square kilometres (slightly more than 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC) with 4,608,000 citizens. English, Malay (generic), Tamil and Chinese are the languages commonly used by the people in Singapore (consider regional differences).

Singapore is a city-state in Southeast Asia. Combining the skyscrapers and subways of a modern, affluent city with a medley of Chinese, Malay and Indian influences and a tropical climate, with tasty food, good shopping and a vibrant nightlife scene, this Garden City makes a great stopover or springboard into the region. Head to one of the three beaches on Sentosa or its southern islands. Other beaches can be found on the East Coast. The Bras Basah area east of Orchard and north of the Singapore River is Singapore's colonial core, with historical buildings and museums. Popular tourist attractions Singapore Zoo, Night Safari, Jurong Bird Park and the Botanical Gardens are all in the North and West. Finding real nature is a little harder, but the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (located in the same district as the zoo) has more plant species than that in the whole of North America.

Pictures from Capital (Singapur)

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About Singapore

The landscape features lowland and gently undulating central plateau contains water catchment area and nature preserve. The average density of population is about 6,652 per km². The climate in Singapore can be described as tropical with hot, humid, rainy, two distinct monsoon seasons - Northeastern monsoon (December to March) and Southwestern monsoon (June to September), inter-monsoon - frequent afternoon and early evening thunderstorms. Potential threats by nature are NA.

To reach someone in Singapore dial +65 prior to a number. There are 1,852,000 installed telephones. And there are 6,652,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 MHz and 3G. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".sg". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 230V - 50Hz. The following list are the 6 regions/states in Singapore we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Singapore population grew at a rate of 0.86% (or by 40,617 citizens). With 22,565 deaths and 40,664 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 0.39%. 22,518 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Singapore: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.